Review: The Final Target by Nora Roberts

The Final Target by Nora Roberts
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I was provided an ALC and ARC of this book via Netgalley, all opinions are my own.

This follows Arden from publishing her first book through her successful career as an author.  As she is gaining success she meets Dustin, an eager fan with a bit too much enthusiasm.  He sets off all of the alarm bells after coming to one too many events, and oversteps the line of fan to stalker very quickly.  After things take a violent turn, Arden moves across the country to seek the peace, quite, and safety she so desperately needs.  She also finds community and support in the small Oregon town.  While Arden is putting her life back together, Dustin is building their life together in his head after he gets released from psychiatric treatment.  Can her found family protect her or has she built up the skills she needs to protect herself from the privileged stalker when he comes for her a second time?

I really enjoyed getting to know Arden, her friends, and her family.  The author did a really good job with her character development and did a great job making Dustin's character horribly creepy.  His personality and ideals were something to behold, and not in a good way.  The cast of characters was well developed, and I love a good found family element to any book.  There is a nice romance element but it isn't over the top.  January LaVoy's narration as always is phenomenal.  Her work is always top notch.

I did find this to be a bit formulaic and predictable when compared to a few of Robert's more recent novels.  The plot and characters were similar in nature to a few of her books in the last few years.  Does that mean it wasn't entertaining?  Absolutely not, I still enjoyed it and the characters were engaging.

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